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Tweak says, "i smell a pig, i blame the cop"

Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator (navigatorsghost) wrote,
@ 2009-06-15 09:45:00

Current mood:	hopeful
Current music:	Firewind, Falling to Pieces
Entry tags:	black library, dawn of war, friends, fun, gigs, happy, i love my job, i'd rather be dancing, little ships, me, obsessions, triad, weird things, work

Y halo thar, Monday morning...
I just got a spam with the subject line "For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide". I... yep, it's definitely Monday.

In other news I am concluding once again that gods can hear me panicking, and take great delight in watching the water level rise just over my nose before they extend a loving hand and unceremoniously haul me out by the scruff of the neck. Completely out of the blue, the Running Head (who I used to work for, long-term readers will recall) rang me up on Friday afternoon and offered me a proofreading job! They remember I exist after all! *happy dance*

And then I checked my email and had another editing job from BL, unprecedentedly quickly after the last one; and in an interesting case of one of those "audible series of clicks" moments, the book they want me to edit is the next one in a series that DT just sent me etexts of all the previous volumes of! How extraordinarily useful, really, is that?

Meanwhile, last night was the Rocksoc May Brawl, which I'll review properly over on (lj)faithinfire but which was great fun, and the night before that was Bump'n'Grindhouse and before that I went to the water park in Bedford with lookingforsigns, so this weekend was rather more physical than most. I've woken up this morning with a headbangover of middlingly-epic proportions, but I suspect it could be a lot worse, given how much dancing I've done. Not to mention taking a mild beating on the waterslides - the ones at Oasis are steep enough that they kind of throw you sideways on the bends and bounce you into the walls. However, the runoff points where the water from the slides pours back into the pool are a great source of free back massages, so, you lose some you win some. ^_^

Also, as already mentioned by Seiber, I have little ships! Pirates of the Cursed Seas is a... well, it's like the point where CCG meets tabletop wargaming, because you buy it in packs like cards, but then you pop out all the bits and assemble them and you have little ships that sail around the table! And you can actually get a game out of a single booster pack, which beats almost every other collectable fighting game I've EVER heard of. I haven't really trialled the game itself, because like Seiber I'm mostly distracted by going "zomg, little ships!" but it looks kind of basic... as a collectable gimmick, though, it's genius. Unfortunately, the company apparently got bought out a bit back and so the game may be dead in the water (so to speak) but... never mind. I still have little ships!

And (lj)lonescorpion just left me an email with hints on how to do the fourth mission in DoW, so I think that's my evening sorted, then!

So. How/what/who is everyone else doing today? ^_^

Laters,
Rath

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	kimbleshi 2009-06-15 05:27 am UTC (link)
	I have about 50 little tiny dice from the game with the little ships! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-06-15 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Hee, yes - I can see how that would happen! Do you actually play much, or just have a stack of little ships too? g (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kimbleshi
2009-06-15 05:43 am UTC (link)

I've watched a couple of games, there was a "games" shop for a while back in Cornwall where they had tables where you could play, I've seen a few impressive armadas! Somehow I just always ended up with the dice :) I built a fair few of the little ships but never actually got any for myself. Some of the rare ships are really impressive when built!

But then the game shop went away because not enough people buy board games and card games to keep such a shop going. I think it is a shoe shop now and far less impressive.

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	navigatorsghost 2009-06-15 05:48 am UTC (link)
	That sounds fantastic, though a sad end for such a place to come to. :( When I rule the world, there will be a special government subsidy budget dedicated to the preservation of Awesome, so that cool and useful shops/pubs/voluntary organisations/whatever won't have to go out of business so damn often... (Reply to this) (Parent)

lookingforsigns
2009-06-15 06:25 am UTC (link)

blinkinghell mentioned she had some, I might PM her this evening to see if the offer to send them over is still open.

Watching you play Dawn of War is kinda awesome because you're so emotionally invested in it. I could never get people who actively enjoy watching their characters die.

Today...I have no idea. It's quite hot but after two days of wandering (and sunburns including the top of my head if the soreness is what I think it is) I might just swing over to CB2, plug in my laptop, and do some nice ficcing.

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	lookingforsigns 2009-06-15 06:30 am UTC (link)
	And she literally replied two seconds ago. So yay bitty ships! (Reply to this) (Parent)

navigatorsghost
2009-06-15 08:22 am UTC (link)

Bitty ships! ^_^ Note, btw, that if you go in The Works in town, the "mega packs" are the same price as the regular boosters but contain MORE BITTY SHIPS. Including special ones. *enables wildly*

Eeee. ^_^ Well, I love my little polygonal dudes very much and watching them die is not good, so this gives me an incentive to play better!

*snugs* Well, enjoy, whatever you do! :)

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	lookingforsigns 2009-06-15 08:24 am UTC (link)
	:D! I'll swing by and check it out, although I might wait and see what I we get from blinkinghell before actually buying. is enabled! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	deepbluesquee 2009-06-15 09:18 am UTC (link)
	...Is that a line from the Crumpetty Tree? blinka I think it is! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-06-15 10:26 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't have a clue, but it might be! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

deepbluesquee
2009-06-15 10:43 am UTC (link)

*checks book* It is!

On top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.
For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
With ribbons and bibbons on every side,
And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
So that nobody ever could see the face
Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

...I think I should show Lupie this book. And lookit, capital letter on Hat!

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	navigatorsghost 2009-06-15 11:28 am UTC (link)
	Eee! (Did you get my text, btw?) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fionakitty 2009-06-15 01:38 pm UTC (link)
	The gig was awesome! I too, have a headbangover (that's an awesome phrase). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-06-15 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Hee - I coined that term years ago when trying to explain exactly how it was that I felt so bally awful after a night out when I had been dancing, but not drinking. It was an attempt to claim equal sympathy with the boozehounds I hung out with, mostly. ^_^ But it stuck, so I still use it... (Reply to this) (Parent)